over four thousand members....

[MagUser4Life]

and all we have had on at one time is 154? seems kinda low.

[shartley]

[gmag]

I would be interested in aquiring the percentage of members that actively post(over 50 posts) versus the percentage of members that do not post.

Shartley, I would love it if a larger portion of our members posted more, but I do not think it will happen. Although I, also, am interested in ideas to increase member participation.

~Brett

[Shaft]

Hah! Rule of 15. 15% do all the work, participation etc. It's the same for most fraternities, lodges, or any member based organization.

In the case of AO, it matters not to me. Most the regulars are pretty cool and I don't find the forum to be lacking.

Enjoy!

[Monkertrol]

yes...

4000 is a lot, we need to find all the non poster and make em start

[Nitroduck]

Try submitting AO to p8ntballer.com's top 100 sites....It works wonders for hits.

[shartley]

Nitroduck Shaft

[AGD]

Now who is the guy with the data? That would be me....

Actually we get about 500 different MEMBERS checking in and reading the posts ever day. In a week we will get 8-900 different members checking in. With that it is safe to say we have almost 1000 active participants even though they don't post.

On top of that we get about 20% non-members reading the boards.

It is no longer unusual for us to get 1000 posts a day across the whole board. For tracking purposes I don't count the ones in the classifieds which is about 40% so that brings our active member post count down to about 600 day.

In comparison the Angel and WGP forums on PBN each average less than about 200 a day. In comparison to most other gun forums we are really big and still growing. We now are routinely getting 10-20 new members a day.

Congrats to all, when your hot your hot!!

AGD

[shartley]

Thanks for the hard numbers Tom.

Now we need to get the lurkers to post!
(Although I must admit I was a lurker for a LONG time before I posted.. LOL)

[MantisMag]

that's a LOT of people reading.


600 posts a day and 500 members. i see some people are doing a lot of posting. hehe. i think things already move pretty fast here on AO. i can't imagine what it would be like if we got all the lurkers posting.

[Cardinal_Biggles]

Being an occasional lurker...

myself, I find the reason I sometimes don't post is because I have nothing new or beneficial to add to the conversation, and I know people hate to hear the same thing said by ten different people.
I've been a member of AO since i think November of 2000, and have a considerably lower post count than most people, but I get on here nearly every day to read the posts. This forum is an excellent source of info and daily soapdish .
There really isn't much you could do to make more people post consistantly without considerably decreasing the quality of threads to the level of Jerry Springer (People seem to like that stuff). If you increase the quality of threads to that of Deep blue, people tend to become intimidated and post less. A happy medium has been found between these two extremes, leaving people feeling free to post when they feel like it, about just about anything paintball.
-And AGD saw the people mingling peaceably under His name, and He said "Let there be AO" and He saw that it was good...